On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:29:11AM +0200, houghi wrote:
On Wed, Aug 31, 2005 at 09:03:38AM +0200, Robert Schiele wrote: Do far I am not going to comment, because I do not have it running. http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~schiele/suse/ does not offer me a workable solution. The other solutions ask me for a .jigdo file that I don't have and am not aware of.
See below.
Have fun! Should I provide you with some of the sample images I made for beta3?
That would be nice, but I first need to get to a .jigdo file.
You can find everything you need in http://pi3.informatik.uni-mannheim.de/~schiele/jigdotest/. You can either test with the i386 CD images for beta3 (the SUSE-10.0-CD-OSS-i386-Beta3* files) or with the network boot image (the boot.* files). The last one is better suited for a small test because it is much smaller. If we provided these images to a wider audience we should add even more mirror servers to allow load balancing but I think for this test the current jigdo file is ok.
This is my comparison till this moment. ftp winds handsdown: 1. Go to the download page 2. Download You have your iso's
For jigdo it is: 1. Go to the .jogdo download 2. Download jigdo
This could be provided from the download page then to ease the pain.
3. search for a .jigdo file
This would be provided on the download page then.
4. Run the program 5. ? Not sure if there is a step 5, as I did not get that far.
That should be all. You have an ISO image afterwards.
So what I am saying, although it might be a great tool, it will not be for everybody to use. I am by no means a guru or wizzard, but I am also not really a begeinner, so if I am stuck a lot of people will get stuck as well. With FTP I can say, click on http://example.com/cd1.iso and so on.
With jigdo I need to have them install another program.
Again, perhaps really great, but hardly : " not more difficult to explain jigdo to the average user than it is to explain how to burn ISO images "
Sure there are more "steps" and we need some _good_ documentation for the process but if we have that I still think that an average user can do it.
As I understand, jigdo will also only download (and make) the iso's, so that step has to be made for both.
Sure, but it releases the load we currently have on the mirror servers. In my opinion this is a reasonable value. Feel free to add your experiences to the wiki page and ask more questions. That way we could improve the documentation. It is likely that I don't see several problems because I just consider some things to be self-evident that other users don't consider to be. Robert -- Robert Schiele Tel.: +49-621-181-2214 Dipl.-Wirtsch.informatiker mailto:rschiele@uni-mannheim.de